From: "Michael Walle" <mwalle@kernel.org>
To: "Cheng Ming Lin" <linchengming884@gmail.com>,
"Pratyush Yadav" <pratyush@kernel.org>,
"Takahiro Kuwano" <takahiro.kuwano@infineon.com>,
"Miquel Raynal" <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
"Vignesh Raghavendra" <vigneshr@ti.com>
Cc: <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<alvinzhou@mxic.com.tw>,
"Cheng Ming Lin" <chengminglin@mxic.com.tw>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: macronix: Document support for additional flash aliases
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:26:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DHPD8DFIQCMM.13NPOBDQOSXL2@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260410091039.389911-1-linchengming884@gmail.com>
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On Fri Apr 10, 2026 at 11:10 AM CEST, Cheng Ming Lin wrote:
> From: Cheng Ming Lin <chengminglin@mxic.com.tw>
>
> Several Macronix SPI NOR flash devices share the same ID.
> For instance, the MX25L51245G and MX25L51273G share the same ID
> (0xc2201a) with the currently listed MX66L51235F.
>
> Add these equivalent part numbers to the comments above their
> corresponding flash_info entries.
>
> While this change does not affect the functional driver logic, it
> significantly improves the searchability of the kernel source tree.
> This helps users easily verify that their specific physical part is
> fully supported, preventing confusion and deterring redundant patch
> submissions that attempt to add duplicate entries for these alias parts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cheng Ming Lin <chengminglin@mxic.com.tw>
Hi Cheng,
could you please provide an SFDP dump of all these chips? See [1]
for more information.
Thanks,
-michael
[1] https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/mtd/spi-nor.html
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2026-04-10 9:10 [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: macronix: Document support for additional flash aliases Cheng Ming Lin
2026-04-10 9:26 ` Michael Walle [this message]
2026-04-10 10:00 ` Cheng Ming Lin
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